Senior lecturer in Humanities, Australian Catholic University
My current research explores cultures of reading, in particular, the ways people read in book clubs. I am very interested in book clubs as a civic space.
I have done research on literary hoaxes and on representations of race and ethnicity in Australian cultural production.
The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians
Jul 09, 2018 14:04 pm UTC| Politics
Although the 2018 Closing the Gap report on Indigenous disadvantage highlighted the importance of literacy for Indigenous Australians, progress remains slow. But, while reading is widely considered an unmitigated good and...
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